UF Weekend Reads

Yes, Germany and Greece have been in a war of words in the unfolding crisis over the latter’s membership in the euro zone, but this afternoon the two nations face off in a different (and far more entertaining) way: they go head-to-head in the European Championship quarterfinal.

Is lying different from stealing in matters of securities fraud, Steven Davidoff asks in his column, comparing the crimes of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling with those of convicted insider traders Rajaratnam and Gupta.

Italy, like Greece and Spain, has too much debt and too little growth. But Italy is the 7th-biggest economy in the world, the 4th-largest in Europe, and the 3rd-largest in the euro zone — it is too big to fail, writes Matthew Hedrick.